Description:
Molded Gilt Copper Peacock Weathervane, A.L. Jewell and Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1850-77, flattened full-body figure with embossed sheet copper tail and zinc feet, mounted on a copper sphere, no stand, (losses to crest and sphere),ht. 32 3/4, lg. 40 in.
Literature: A similar example by A.L. Jewell and Company is illustrated in Steve Miller, The Art of the Weathervane (Pennsylvania: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1984),p. 136.
Estimate $10,000-15,000
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